Martha Boggs, the owner of the restaurant—located, coincidentally, on Gay Street—had heard a radio interview with Campfield in which the lawmaker made what she considered to be disparaging remarks about homosexuality.

Campfield, who recently sponsored legislation requiring elementary and middle schools to teach only heterosexually-based sex education, told ABC News that he was taken completely by surprise by Boggs’ actions. “We were just standing there waiting for a table, and this woman came up to me saying ‘I’m not serving you, I’m not serving you, you hate gay people,’” Campfield said. “‘I said ma’am I’m not a homophobe,’ and I offered to send her links from the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] Web site to back up what I said about homosexuality being a dangerous lifestyle, and being a risky behavior.”

The CDC links that Campfield referred to include statistics from 2008 data which indicate that 54 percent of HIV cases diagnosed that year were from same sex contact among males, while 32 percent was contracted from heterosexual sexual contact. The data did not address female homosexual sex.

Campfield, however, was not as thorough during the radio interview, claiming that it is “virtually impossible” to contract HIV or AIDS through heterosexual behavior.

“My understanding is that it is virtually — not completely, but virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex,” Campfield said.

Boggs said she has no regrets, despite some local backlash. “It was one of those spur of the moment things. I didn’t think about what I was doing, but all I did was look at his smug face, and told myself I do not want to serve him. His comments have gone from stupid to dangerous and I think someone needs to stand up to him,” Boggs told ABC News. “I think Mr. Campfield is a bully, so I just stood up to a bully.”

The Advocate.com has published its third annual rankings of the gayest places in America. The authors utilized a self-described “subjective criteria,” based in no part on official U.S. Census Bureau data, to arrive at the “per capita queerness” of some of the America’s cities and towns.

Fort Lauderdale made the rankings, coming in at “Number 4,” in an equation that included such categories as the number of LGBT elected officials within the community, the density-per-area of LGBT bookstores–and nude yoga classes, whether a locality offers protections to transgendered persons, and the

number of International Mr. Leather competition semifinalists who live there, among other criteria, which was then “divided by population within city limits.”

The Advocate.com editors distinguished “Fort Lauderdale” from surrounding communities, specifically citing “Wilton Manors” by name, although the number of gay-centric activities and events would be sparer, indeed, if the Island City and neighbors like Oakland Park are excluded from any accounting.

Making the Top Ten were some surprise entries: Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, Michigan (at “Numbers 6” and “10,” respectively), and Knoxville, Tennessee (“Number 8”), although the authors explain the logic behind their selections, including whether or not a city includes a WNBA franchise.

Orlando also made the list, arriving at “Number 2” through a combination of being host city for Gay Days at Disney World on the first Saturday in June, offering more gay softball teams than any other locality, and the city’s recent domestic-partnership protections ordinance, among other things “queer.”

Rounding out the rankings was a perhaps surprising grand prize winner, Salt Lake City, Utah, which finished at “Number 1.” While citing such cultural icons of the Beehive State as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the listings also point out SLC’s over “half-dozen hot spots for men and women, including the eco-friendly nightclub Jam (JamSLC.com),” as well as the internationally-renowned Sundance Film Festival, which offers many annual LGBT film selections. The authors also note this often-overlooked fact about the city-that-polygamy-built: contrary to popular wives tales about Utah, Mormons, and a state that by law doesn’t permit happy hours, “you can get a drink in this town.”